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E. J'EWE P. LEE.

LRY RING.

Patented May 6, 1884. 1.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN F. LEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

JEWELRY-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,100, dated May6,1884.

' 7 Application filed September 7, 1683. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN F. LEE, of the city and county of New York, inthe State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inMethod of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

' Y My invention relates to rings having on the inner sides masonic andother emblems or figures; and the object of the invention is to enablesuch emblems or figures to be produced in relief upon the surroundingground, and

also to produce such emblems or figures surrounded by enamel, ifdesired.

The invention consists in a ring having on the inner side emblems orfigures in relief up on the surrounding ground.

It also consists in a ring having on the inner side emblems or figuresin relief on the surrounding ground, and having the surrounding groundcovered with enamel.

The invention also includes the method of making an emblematic ring,consisting in rolling a strip of metal to produce emblems or figures onone side or face, and in bending the strip into the form of a ring, withthat side on which the emblems or figures are produced turned inward andjoining the ends to form the ring. The emblems or figures may beproduced upon the strip by passing the strip, together with an engravedformer or patternbar, between plain-surfaced rolls, or by passing thestrip alone between two rolls, one having the pattern engraved upon it,and the other having a plain surface.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of thecompleted ring. Fig. 2 is a plan of the strip from which a ring is to bemade. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the strip on the dotted line wm, Fig. 2, and a dotted representation of the ring formed by bending thestrip. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a pair of plain-surfaced rollers,and representing a strip and pattern-bar or former passing between therolls. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the pattern-bar or' former; andFig.

6 is a transverse section of a pair of rolls, orie p of which isengraved to produce the desired v emblems or fi gures. Similar lettersof reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Jewelry-Rings and in the A designates both the ring and the strip ofmetal from which it is produced. The strip having been prepared, Ipassit between rolls and produce on one'side thereof any desired emblems orfigureslike the emblems a, for example. These emblems or figures areproduced in relief upon the surrounding ground 17. As shown in Fig. 2,the ground bis depressed, forming a sunken panel, on whichall theemblems a appear in relief; but, if desired, the ground 1) around theemblems, but not between them, may be depressed, so that each emblem orfigure will appear in relief on a separate sunken panel or ground.

In rolling the strip A to produce the emblems or figures a, I may employtwo smoothsurfaced rolls, B, as shown in Fig. 5. In such case I alsoemploy a former or pattern-bar, O,

which is engraved on one of its faces and plain 011 the opposite face.The strip A is laid on the engraved face of the former or patternbar 0,and both are passed together between the rolls B, as shown in Fig. 5,the strip receiving the emblems or figures in relief from the intaglioportions of the pattern-bar or former. I may, however, in rolling thestrip employ two rolls, B D, as shown in Fig. 6, the roll B having asmooth surface, and the roll D a surface engraved to produce the desiredemblems or figures. In this latter case no pattern-bar or former isnecessary. Having thus produced the emblems or figures, I may leave themin relief, or I may cover the ground I) .with enamel, as indicated byshading in Fig.

2, in which case the emblems or designs would be flush with the surfaceof the enamel. To complete the ring I bend the strip A into circularform, with the emblems or figures on the inner side, and solder the endstogether. In this wayI am enabled to produce emblems or figures on theinner sides of rings at a very small cost, and whether enamel is used ornot I I can obtain effects which cannot be produced by engraving theinner sides of rings after they are complete.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1.- A ring having on its-inner side emblems or figures in relief on thesurrounding ground, substantially as herein described.

2. Aring having on the inner side emblems .or figures in relief on asurrounding ground,

and having the ground covered with enamel, substantially as hereindescribed.

3. The method of forming an emblematic ring, consisting in rolling astrip of metal to produce emblems or figures on or in the surroundingground, and in bending the strip into a circle, with the emblems orfigures 0n the inner side, and in finally joining the ends of the strip,substantially as and for the purpose 10 described.

EDWIN F. LEE.

\Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, ED. L. MORAN.

